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Sherri Olson

Associate Professor

 

Office: Wood Hall, Room 207
Phone: (860) 486-3552
Fax: (860) 486-0641
Email:sherri.olson@uconn.edu

Areas of Specialty

Medieval Europe, Social History

Current Research Interests

Village government and society; connections between monastic and peasant culture, 13th-15th centuries.

 
Biography

Education:
1988 Ph.D., Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
1980 M.A., History, Indiana University, Bloomington
1977 B.A., History and French, Indiana University, Bloomington

Community/University Outreach:
History Department Coordinator, Early College Experience Program 2005 - present
Faculty Organizer, Annual Medieval Studies/Early College Experience Secondary Schools Outreach, 1998 - present

Selected Publications

A Chronicle of All That Happens: Voices From the Village Court in Medieval England. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1996.

A Mute Gospel: The People and Culture of the Medieval English Common Fields. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (forthcoming 2008).

Daily Life in a Medieval Monastery, in the ‘Daily Life through History’ series, Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut (forthcoming, 2008).

"Rural Local Records" in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, 1 vol., ed. Margaret Schaus. New York and London: Routledge, 2006.

"Jurors of the Village Court: Local Leadership Before and After the Plague in Ellington, Huntingdonshire," Journal of British Studies, 30 (July 1991), 237-256.

"Family Linkages and the Structure of the Local Elite in the Medieval and Early Modern Village," Medieval Prosopography, 13, No. 2 (Fall, 1992) 53-82.

"`Families Have Their Fate and Periods': Varieties of Family Experience in the Pre-Industrial English Village," in The Salt of Common Life: Individualism and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside and Church. Essays Presented to J. Ambrose Raftis, ed. Edwin Dewindt (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995).

A Chronicle of All That Happens: Voices from the Village Court in Medieval England (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1996)

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